Category: Nova Scotia

How Much Is Hst In Nova Scotia?

15%. Nova Scotia Department of Finance – HST. Nova Scotia’s Harmonized Sales Tax is 15%, which includes a 5% federal portion and 10% provincial portion. The province offers a number of HST rebates to offset the amount of the provincial portion of the HST for certain products and services. How do you calculate HST in […]

What’S The Flower Of Nova Scotia?

mayflower. Nova Scotia adopted the trailing arbutus or mayflower (Epigaea repens L) as its official flower in 1901, when an Act of the provincial legislature stated that it “is hereby declared to be and from time immemorial to have been the emblem of Nova Scotia.” As far back as 1825, it was used as a […]

Where Did The Vikings Land In Nova Scotia?

L’Anse aux Meadows. L’Anse aux Meadows is the only confirmed Norse site in North America outside of Greenland. It represents the farthest-known extent of European exploration and settlement of the New World before the voyages of Christopher Columbus almost 500 years later. Did the Vikings go to Nova Scotia? Vikings and Vinland They were hunter-gathers […]

Why Does Nova Scotia Have So Many Rocks?

The reason for Nova Scotia’s geological brilliance is, of course, its history, which includes slivers of terranes that originated on distant and ancient continents and oceans that have shape-shifted into later incarnations thanks to the great power of plate tectonics. How was Nova Scotia geologically formed? 470 million years ago, the Meguma Terrane split from […]